The world is on the threshold of the Kali Yuga, the Age of Darkness, millions of beings are dying in the Great Battle. Lightnings of heavenly weapons blaze over the Field of Kuru, burning all life, and even the Gods-Worldkeepers are unable to stop the slaughter. Above the ashes of the old world rises the ghost of the new world - Lord Krishna, the Black Balamut with the same flute in his hands. And before the mighty Indra the Thunderer, step by step, the lives of the three disciples of the great ascetic Rama with the Ax unfold - the kshatriya Gange the Terrible, the brahmin Drona and Karna the Cleaver, the son of the charioteer, the freest man of the Kaurava state. The fate of ordinary people and the kings of Hastinapur, the fate of the celestials and their earthly incarnations, about which the ancient myths of India narrated and were silent, became the basis for the Black Balamut, a grandiose epic novel, one of the most significant works of H. L. Oldie.